T,di»or » not*—A working reporter ®f th* T>ailj- Troian j«*t«*rda> was eiroted from the Lo* Ansfle* nmrint* of th* Trnnry rommitt** or nn-American activities when he laiiRhed audibly at the response Helen Hall Moreland, dean of women, to a onestion by the committee's counsel. The following is hie account of what happened.)
.'was not angry. I wasn’t even scared. It hap-	swept the thought from mind for a moment as I tried to make clear that I
pened too suddenly, or perhaps it was my long	had not come to the hearing to cause a disturbance or to heckle. My laughter
„	training in living in a land of free institutions that	was a na*ora| response, but it must have sounded tike Niagara in the hushed
k	Dy George l. Anaerson	3	v
m	kept the ugly fact from sinking in.	*? . *	■■■■■#■■# ,	i .....„
Managing Editor, Daily Trojan	.	......	. , . .	After tne newsmen had had their fill of photos and caption identitica-
It was not until I had been safely deposited in	tions> State Sen Fred H Krof, San Dieqo courfeous|y as|<ed if I would like to
I The craning necks of spectators in the front of the conference room and the hall, with the attendant flashbulb popping, that	return to the hearing. I replied that I thought not, because of the rude treat-
wild gesticulating of committee members were the first notice I had that the full fury of what had happened slapped me.	ment I had been accorded. He assured me that I had been bounced only
thing untoward had happened. The gesticulating meant only one thing: I HAD BEEN THROWN OUT BECAUSE I GOT THE	because I did not understand the rules of the hearing.
ieone was going to be thrown out of the hearing.	POINT OF A JOKE.	Senator Tenney had admonished the spectators at the opening of th,
. .	.	.	....	. . . .r. I .	• * ii.i r u	session that no outburst would be tolerated. Because I had come into the
When the two policemen bent solicitously over me and asked if I would Memories of Sinclair Lew s It Can t Happen	hearing ,afe , missed ,he instructions , assured Senator Kraft fhatj instruc.
impany them to the door, it dawned that I was being ejected from Jack Here came flooding back in all their meanness and	tions or n0j | hac| resp0nded only in a most natural manner to a humorous
ley’s first local round in his war with communism. The issue yesterday: horror. Was this the beginning of a similar pattern?	situation. He repeated his invitation and was exceedingly kind.
_	_ ,	..	_	I did not reenter the hearing.
American-Russian institute a communist front organization?
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The crowding, questioning newsreporters
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Vol. XXXIX
>'• Los Angeles, Cal., Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1948 No. 81
Fagg to Discuss SC Problems
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will discuss problems concerning the development of the university when he addresses the first all-U assembly of the semester Thursday morning
-L STEVENS, left, and Eph Konigsberg, winners of last ar's Wachtell award, are shown with the prizes to be rarded the victors of the contest this year. Tau Kappa pha, national honorary speech fraternity, is sponsor of second annual impromptu speech tournament.
iurrent Affairs peech Trial Set
lyone who is well-versed on national and international irs has a good chance of winning a Wftchtell award in second annual impromptu speech tournament, according )r. Russell L. Caldwell, faculty advisier of the contest, ups for the tournament end this afternoon.
hether taking speech classes or i ......... • —
participation is urged.” said Dr. rell. “Persons with a great lot information are invited and a chance of walking off with |of the three trophies.”
TKA GIVES TROPHIES ie trophies are awarded by the )nai headquarters of Tau Kap-Jpha. honorary speech fratemi-rom a fund created for the pur-: of promoting speech interests schools throughout the ooun-SC s TKA chapter was organ-by the late Dr. Ray Immel. for-
“ head of the speech department, beech topics will come from cur-11 national and international •s. Ociy events that have hap-ed in 1948 will be selected for ics—none more than six weeks And readers of the news maga-es and newspapers should be ecially qualified to compete. RADED ON THREE POINTS lach speaker will select his topic m a list of three and will have seconds to mentally prepare and ange his material. After this f-minute preparatory period, he deliver an impromptu speech |m five to seven minutes dura-
-nowledge of subject, effective-is of delivery, and ability of ikers to stick to the subjects be considered in making the rds.
respective contestants may sign until 1 p.m. today at the cen-ly located general studies 54*b ice. 901 West 36th place. All testants will meet at that office 30 this afternoon to hear the ■nament rules and for a proof elimination. Six speakers compete in the finals.
VA Requests Leave Notice
Veterans who discontinue their training under the GI Bill before their period of entitlement to training is used up must obtain what the veterans administration calls a “supplementary certificate of eligibility” before they re-enter training.
The supplemental certificate of eligibility indicates the amount of additional training the veteran is entitled to at government expense af^r the amount of time previously used in training has been deducted.
If a veteran has completed the previous course satisfactorily, the supplemental certificate can be issued almost immediately. If. however. he has failed in his original program, it is necessary that he receive complete professional counseling before a new certificate can be issued.
M facial
Notice
Un all-university assembly is
peduled for tomorrow. Feb. 19, 10 ajn.. in Bovard auditorium.
Cdent Fred D. Fagg Jr. will jss the assembly, j Vll classes for the lt o’clock peril will be dismissed.
A. S. Raubenheimer, Educational vice-pres.
Cars to Detour For Ceremony
Warnings for students, faculty members, and university administrative employees driving automobiles to campus to heed the temporary parking restrictions imposed on the university area next week during the four-day stay of the Freedom train were issued yesterday by Charles MacBeth, assistant university business manager.
“We are asking the close cooperation of all those who drive to school during the period that the train is on Exposition boulevard,” Mr. MacBeth said, “to prevent a parking mixup”
CARS DETOURED
Faculty members and others using the Bridge hall and Dental building parking lots were reminded that the only entrance to these lots from Feb. 23 to 26 will be through the driveway between Hancock and Elisabeth von KleinSmid halls.
Police department officials said that Exposition boulevard between Figueroa street and Vermont avenue will be closed to all vehicles while the train is in Los Angeles.
STREETS BLOCKED
Menlo avenue between Santa Barbara avenue and Exposition will be closed to parking, and University avenue and Hoover street between Exposition and 37th street will be closed to traffic.
Mr. MacBeth reminded students using the parking lot at the southwest comer of Menlo and Exposition that that lot will be closed during the Freedom train visit so that members of Mayor Fletcher Bowron‘s Citizen's committee may park.
at 10 in Bovard auditorium.
The program is the first in which President Fagg intends to bring various university problems directly to the student body by means of occasional talks to the students.
Primary topics for tomorrow’s assembly will be the problems of financing the university and tuition. The serious business matters of university facilities, services, and personnel will be discussed, although the assembly will also serve as an official welcome to all new and returning students.
Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice-president, announced that all 10 o’clock classes will be dismissed in order that students may attend the assembly, but 11 o’clock classes will continue according to scmedule.
Dean Raubenheimer’s statement stressed that the assembly is of a serious nature, important to both students and faculty, and that President Fagg is anxious to bring these major problems confronting the university before the student body for discussion.
Unruh Blasts Small Raise
Today s Headlines
by United Press
Wallace Man Scores Upset
NEW YORK, Feb. 17—Leo Isacson, candidate of the American Labor party wi.th the personal endorsement of Henry A. Wallace, scored an upset victory over his Democratic opponent last night in a special congressional election which had been hailed as the first ballot-box test of Wallace’s third party.
Navy Awaits New Contact
TSINGTAO, Wednesday, Feb. 18—U. S. naval ships are lying off Haiyang on the east coast of the Shantung peninsula awaiting a new contact with Chinese communists to negotiate for the release of four American marine prisoners, Adm. Charles M. Cooke Jr., commander of the U. S. naval forces in the western Pacific, revealed today.
Marshall Plan Gets Approval
WASHINGTON. Feb. 17—The senate foreign relations committee unanimously approved the Marshall plan with a last minute provision that $3,000,000,000 of the initial $5,300,-000.000 appropriation is to be taken from the government’s surplus for the current fiscal year.
Jesse Unruh, Trovets president, delivered a blast at the recently passed congressional bill to raise vets subsistence at yesterday’s meeting of the campus veterans organization.
Terming the bill “totally inadequate and a token gesture,” Unruh said “There is no provision to raise ceilings on earnings of vets in college, and the $10 increase given single veterans is almost an insult.
‘‘The original Edith Nourse Rogers bill which would raise subsistence to $100 and $125 with additional amounts for children is what is needed.
“Trovets will continue to work for adoption of such adequate measures.” he said.
Preliminary nominations for 1948 officers were made at yesterday’s meeting. Nominations for the posts will^ remain open until Friday afternoon and may be left at the Trovet office in the student lounge.
TTiose nominated for offices were Bob Padgett, president; George Stanley, vice-president; and Ben Lane, treasurer. Offered as candidates to fill the six board-member vacancies were Joe Flynn, Mike Colicigno, Walt Brown, Pat Corrigan. Bob Wells, Edward Fisher, Jack Henry, Hal Levich, and Bert Higginbotham.
Balloting for candidates will take place Feb. 26-27 in the Trovet office.
Plans for bringing speakers to Trovet meetings were discussed and members considered a tentative plan for forming an intercollegiate veterans association in southern California.
Smoker to Star Cugat Vocalist
Songs and dances styled by the exc-tic Latin movie starlet Elena Verdugo are slated to provide some really unusual entertainment at the Associated Men Students’ second big smoker “Meet the Wheels” tomorrow evening, according to an announcement yesterday by Dave Evans, AMS entertainment chairman.
Formerly featured vocalist with the Xavier Cugat orchestra, Miss Verdugo is well known to movie fans for her work in several recent pictures, including “The Moon and Sixpence” starring George Sanders, Abbott and Costello’s “The Little Giant,” and “The Gay Sombrero” with Gene Autry.
“I think that it is safe to predict that this lovely young lady will provide men attending the smoker with an evening worth remembering,” Evans said, describing the dancing star with a low, meaningful sigh.
“Although the affair is primarily for the purpose of orientation,” he continued, “all men on campus are cordially invited to attend.”
As an additional feature of the smoker, Dean Cromwell, newly-appointed Olympic track coach will be honored by the AMS. Bringing with h.m several of his present track stars whom he will introduce, Coach Cromwell also will discuss the coming Olympic games and highlights in SC track and field history. Illustrating the SC track coach’s discussion, motion pictures of last year’s intercollegiate track meet at the coliseum will be shown.
The smoker, scheduled for 7 p.m., will be held in the student lounge, third floor Student Union, instead of the men’s gymnasium as originally planned.
As the final event of the crammed orientation period, lt is designed primarily to acquaint new men students with the university and its activities. On hand to greet incoming students, representatives from all campus men’s organizations will discuss with them the purposes and benefits of their groups.
The questioning of Dean Moreland, which I had been assigned to report, revolved around whether the dean of women was aware that the American-Russian institute is a communist front organization.
Dean Moreland, who parried the committee’s counsel aptly on each point of fact, was unruffled throughout the questioning. When asked whether she had knowledge of the American Youth for Democracy group, she answered: “I understand that it is a group sponsored by the Communist party ... I hav$ not checked too deeply.”
Tenney then asked if the dean had or had not introduced Mrs. E. A. Popova and Mrs. E. I. Uralova, outstanding leaders for women’s rights in Russia, to a group of women meeting at the Unitarian church. The meeting was sponsored by the institute and the Congress of American Women.
Yes, she had, the dean responded, but only after checking that they were accredited members of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. And what language did they speak in? Why, Russian, of course, the smiling dean assured him.
To clarify the purposes of the meeting, Dean Moreland said that the Russian women had spoken only on the subject of women’s rights in the USSR “... and a desire for peace.”
“On the part of the people in |-
general?” Tenney asked.
“On the part of women,” she countered.
During a pause in the questioning. Dean Moreland attempted to elaborate on her association with the group. She said that in her cursory connection with the organization she had held no office, had j seen and heard nothing of a sinis-| ter nature, and had only been
Expansion plans of the university!aware °* a desire for peace on the
! part of the members. And weren’t
health service will be completed
Greeley Bares Health Service Extension Plans
Senator Tenney and the committee in favor of peace?
Her offense aside from introducing two Soviet women seems to
within one month, Dr. Paul O. Greeley, has announced.
The new area will include a lab-oratory for diagnostic purposes, a3j
well as a waiting room, consultation | Phi Beta Kappa-
office, dressing booths, storage space ' for medical supplies' and the service’s X-ray facilities.
Three bed cubicles with a nurse in attendance will also be available to students who become ill on campus. The health service will extend into 115 Physical Education building from 110 and 112. *
MEDICAL BUILDING
Dr. Greeley, who proposed the present extension, has directed the expansion plans, which have been in progress for a year. Plans for a separate medical building on campus are now being formulated. If these plans are realized, the building will contain more than 50 beds and offer 24-hour service.
Student care includes diagnosis, office treatment and prescription for treatment, and consultations by specialists in the various fields of medicine. More than 8000 students have taken advantage of the X-ray facilities alone since the equipment was installed last semester.
The health service is open Monday througs Friday from 8 am. to 10:30 p.m. and on Saturday until noon. Only first aid is provided after 5 p.m. An accredited group of physicians is on call 24 hours a day for residence or campus calls when the health service is closed.
ACCIDENT CASES
During regular health service hours all accident cases shoflld be leferred to the health service, which will give first aid, contact physicians or family, and call an ambulance, if necessary.
Left Wing Cell?
Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society, came in for its share of the spotlight during yesterday’s Tenney quiz when Attorney Richard Combs, in the witness chair, offered documents of Phi Bete activities concerning American-Russian cultural relations.
Such names as Thomas Mann, Clarence Dykstra. and SC’s Architecture Dean Arthur Gallion, Profs. John Crown, Mildred Stru-bel, J. Eugene Harley, and Alonzo Baker were brunted about as having had connections of various kinds with the Phi Bete Eta chapter.
Upshot of the whole thing, according to eye-witnesses, was that Senator Jack Tenney apparently thought the honor society was a local fraternity—with very suspicious leanings.
Pre-California Casaba Rally Set (or Bovard
have been allowing her name to be used as a director on the institute’s stationery—without her knowledge.
When asked if *he would continue to act as a director of the group in the future, the dean replied that when she was convinced, as the committee seemed to be convinced. that the American-Russian institute was a communist front organization she would no longer allow it. At the second use of the word convinced I guffawed, and the ensuing sequence with the police took place.
An interesting sidelight to the whole performance for a prospective newspaperman was how quickly news is made. As I sat there listening to the testimony, I was Appointments for consultation merely a student of political affairs with attending psysicians or special- I and a reporter for the Daily Tro-ists may be made in the main of- jan. In the space of a laugh I had fice, 112 Physical Education build-1 become that magic commodity in ing.	j the news world: COPY.
SC's basketballers, second in the Pacific Coast conference standing, will be honored at a special rally in Bovard auditorium Friday noon. The team, almost the same quintet that won only two games in conference competition last year, has l oared back this season as a strong contender for the southern division crown.
By way of supporting the Trojan team the freshman council is sponsoring the Friday rally for thii weekend’s tilts. The Knights have secuied the first floor on the SC side of Olympic auditorium for an organized cheering section under the direction of Chrys Chrys and his battery of cheer leaders. The band will be on tend both nights to add what spirit it can to the revamped rooting section.
GOOD TEAM The rally will feature an introduction of Coach Sam Barry and the starting five: Capt. Alex Hannum, Bill Sharman, Abe Androff, Fred Bertram, and Earle Wallis. After introductions the frosh council plans a tew cheers and slections by a rejuvenated Trojan band.
“This team is a good one.” Coach Barry said yesterday, “with plenty of spirit and fine ability. It deserves more support from the student body than it is getting.
BAD BACKING ‘The team has no advantage wheu playing on the home court,” he continued. “When the boys are out on the floor they aren’t even conscious that they are playing before a home crowd,” he concluded.
The Troy quintet will meet Cal Friday night and Stanford the following night SO still has a chance to cop the southern division crown by defeating California Friday and repeating the performance next week up north. Another defeat of Cal by the Bruins or the Indian* would then clinch the championship for the Trojans.
LAS
. . . council interviews continue today in Blue Key office, 402 Student Union, 1 to 2:15 p.m.
Hot Issue Awaits ASSC Senate Meet
Grades
... for last semester will be mailed to students today, the registrar's office announced yesterday. It is requested that students do not inquire about their grades in the dean of men’s office. Grades mailed include University college as well as day classes.
Possible affiliation of the SC student body with the United States National Students association will be the principal item for discussion when the ASSC senate meets at 7:15 tonight.
Debate at last week’s meeting foreshadowed long and vigorous discussion before affiliation with NSA is approved or disapproved as Pat Hillings and Milt Dobkin clashed over the dynamite-laden charge that the organization Is Communist-infiltrated.
Hillings asserted that representatives wearing lapel buttons identifying them as Communists played a prominent part in the NSA constitutional convention last September. Dobkin vehemently denied the charge and defended the organiza-
tion as one which could be of great j ate tonight, a liaison board would
service to the university.
NSA is working in cooperation with the World Student Service fund and the International Union of Students, organizations which are engaged in helping reconstruct Europe.
Food, clothing, and educational facilities have been exchanged, and in some cases, money has been sent to help rebuild damaged universities.
The organization is also engazed in the international excnange oi students and professors. NSA would provide aid and information for students and faculty members who are desiring to study abroad.
If the NSA constitution and bylaws are ratified by the ASSC sen-
probably be established to refer all problems of a national or international nature to the regional board of the NSA where it would be recommended for further action if necessary.
Adoption of the NSA would allow the student to refer all matters which might effect other
dents to invite speakers of their choice to lecture on subjects oi their choice, providing the approval of the administration is granted.
The right of every student to exercise his full rights as a citizen in forming and participating in local, national, or international organizations consonant with NSA policies, for intellectual, religious.
where they would be coordinated.
Membership is barred to any and all “pressure” or “interest” groups outside the definition of a regular student body. Representation is set up according to the size of the student body of the university. In this case, SC would be entitled to seven representatives.
NSA upholds the right' stu-
schools to the national assembly social, political, economic, or cultural purposes, and to publish and distribute their views would be granted under the NSA constitution.
Establishment and issuing of regular publications free of any censorship or other pressure aimed at controlling the editorial policy, with the free selection and removal (Continued oo Page 4)